Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article VII of the Constitution
of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to recall of elected public officials.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next
following the first Monday in November, 2014, or at a special election to be called by the
governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for
adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article VII of the Constitution of the state of
Missouri:

Section A. Article VII, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section,
to be known as section 15, to read as follows:

Section 15. 1. (1) Except as provided in this subsection, any person holding any
elective public office of this state or any political subdivision thereof may be removed by
recall petition by the qualified voters of the state or of the political subdivision the person
is elected to serve as provided in this section or as provided by state law.

(2) The following limitations shall apply to any recall under this section:

(a) No person holding any elective public office for less than six months shall be
subject to recall;

(b) No person holding any elective public office with less than six months remaining
in such person's term of office shall be subject to recall;

(c) In the case of an office with a term of two years only, no more than one recall
petition shall be filed during such term;

(d) In the case of an office with a term of more than two years, additional recall
petitions may be filed, but no recall petition shall be filed within the six months after voter
disapproval of the last recall petition;

(e) No recalled public official shall be a candidate to fill any vacancy created by
such public official's recall, nor shall such person be appointed to fill such vacancy.

2. Any petition demanding the recall of a person from elective office under this
section shall be signed only by the qualified voters entitled to vote for a successor to the
incumbent sought to be removed. The number of signatures shall be equal to at least
twenty-five percent of the total number of such qualified voters voting in the last
gubernatorial election. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one
paper, but each signer shall add to the signer's signature the signer's place of residence,
giving the street and number and the date signed. One of the signers of each such paper
shall swear or affirm before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements
therein made are true as the signer believes and that each signature to the paper appended
is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

3. The petition shall contain a statement of the reasons for which recall is sought
which shall not be more than two hundred words in length. Reasons for recall under this
section shall be crimes, incompetence, misconduct, corruption in office, failure to perform
duties prescribed by law, willful neglect of duty, or any offense involving moral turpitude
or oppression in office.

4. The petition shall be filed with the secretary of state or the appropriate election
authority of the political subdivision the person is elected to serve within sixty days after
the date of the earliest signature on the petition.

5. Within twenty days from the filing of the recall petition, the secretary of state or
the appropriate election authority shall determine whether the petition was signed by the
required number of qualified signatures. If the secretary of state or the election authority
determines the number of qualified signatures to be insufficient, additional petition
sections containing all of the information required by this section and additional qualified
signatures may be filed within ten days of such determination of insufficiency. Within ten
days after any supplemental items are filed, the secretary of state or the election authority
shall determine whether the number of signatures as supplemented is sufficient.

6. If the secretary of state or the appropriate election authority finds the signatures
on the petition, together with any supplementary signature sections, to be sufficient, the
secretary of state or the election authority shall order an election to be held on the next day
available for elections as provided by law.

7. If any elected public official sought to be recalled under this section resigns from
the office before such recall election occurs, the office shall be declared vacant and shall
be filled on the election day scheduled for the recall election or as otherwise provided by
law.

Section B. Pursuant to chapter 116, RSMo, and other applicable constitutional provisions
and laws of this state allowing the general assembly to adopt ballot language for the submission
of a joint resolution to the voters of this state, the official ballot title of the amendment proposed
in section A of this act shall be as follows:

"Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to allow Missouri citizens to recall elected
public officials?".